. . . What?

Non AI videos:

Awesome Oregon in the 70s:

Awesome Oregon in the 80s:

Awesome Oregon now:

Boomerfying!

Remember all the propagandaish art of the 50s, 60s, and 70s based on advertisements of the time? Like all the Norman Rockwell stuff, sanitized hippie shit, and 70s rock star junk?

Apparently AI is being used to pump out the same kind of thing for the 80s but more blatant.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot:

Heavy Metal Parking Lot : John Heyn & Jeff Krulik : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Produced by John Heyn and Jeff Krulik. Documentary segment where they interview Judas Priest fans in a concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland.

Internet Archive (archive.org)

I hate to tell you this, but the mullets were very real. It was a dark time and we’re all glad it’s in the past.

It's true that this is all AI slop and that they are disgustingly manipulative videos but I do disagree with the notion that the nostalgia and The era was fake and never existed. As a child of the '80s and '90s we really did stay out all day until the street lights came on, and hang out in pizza places and malls and the internet and our screen life has played a major role in changing that. What is heinous here is that people are creating triggers just to manipulate generations. Not the nostalgia.

In the past? Ever since that '70s show was on, I see '70s and '80s hair everywhere on every kid now. It makes me feel like such a boomer to want to yell "cut your GD hair!"

A perfectly cromulent word.

Mullets are back, my dude.

Yeah, the article repeatedly suggesting it was a disingenuous depiction of the era, but didn't seem to make any attempt to support that assertion.

I'd love a breakdown as to what specifically was disingenuous.

I mean, like any social media, it's selectively showing "the good", and ignoring the bad. Is that it? Like, they can't (and wouldn't even if they could) put the heavy cigarette smell of any restaurant of the era through the phone.

The party is behind us.

Like actually back. Popular, even. I get downvoted to oblivion for making fun of mullets. I don't understand a world where mullets are not just here, but defended as a legitimate hairstyle.

Says you. We the transmasculine population refuse to let mullets die

We gave our kid a wolfcut mullet, and honestly it’s working

So many Trans Ams and Firebirds... LOL.

I know I have seen some way off depictions in tv shows and movies.

I’ve said for a while that WW3 will start because of a meme. But now I feel like WW3 will start because of a band AI video taken seriously by the boomers.

I guess so. This is from the article:

Their political project uses the aesthetic of the past to sell a future where minorities are marginalized, women have no political power, and white guys are in charge. That’s how they think it all worked in the past and they’d love for it to happen again.

What the videos don't show is how bad racism was before everyone is able to record at anytime. Shows and movies were very streotypical. Actually since cancel culture wasn't a thing for not famous people, people were really racists in just everyday conversations.

The government's war on immigrants is very much like the war on drugs with were specifically created to target hippies and black communities while at the same time suppying the communities with the drugs they deemed illegal.

In terms of the environment, lead was banned in gasoline in 1996. I thought it was way earlier than that when I looked it up. Shame really. I am no a scientists and the results of microplastics in our system is still being researched but lead poisoning effects are very well documented and I believe the pernament mental effects of it can be seen in a large portion of the boomer population.